Followup in a week: Farmer caught using blowtorch to pop the kernels and attract the media

Of course it pops on the vine. What do you think Native Americans ate at movie theaters before they discovered fire?

sounds like corn smut

At least the farmer knew better than to call an isolated result of weather fluctuations "global warming."

This is nothing new. When I was a kid, I was cultivating the tobacco patch on GrandDad's farm with a mule one hot, sweltering day. It got so hot that the entire popcorn patch next to where we were working popped. It looked like a blizzard. The mule thought it was and stood there and froze to death. True story!!!

Everything is caused by global warming.

Global warming is caused by global warming.

Shut up farmer, you cock.

Ooooh, a new one for the list!!

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PacManDreaming: LordOfThePings: Of course it pops on the vine.

Corn grows on vines?

Sure it does. I have a completely stocked cellar of '05 Orville Redenbacher Chardonnay

I blame the street lights.

roadkillontheweb: I blame the street lights.

Anybody blame Obama yet?

If you build it, Orville Redenbacher will come.

That's just all the cellphone radiation. You need to cover the ears in tinfoil.

What no picture? Guess I'll have to find it myself.




Sadly, as seen in this photo snapped by farmer Patrick Preston, the hot and dry conditions have actually triggered what agriculture experts call "popped kernel." As described in a recent issue of Kentucky Pest News, the term refers to when "the seedcoat on the crown of the kernel breaks open, giving it the appearance of a partially popped popcorn kernel."

And some now for some conspiracy theorists bait

Please note the article does not address the possibility that proximity to a cell phone caused the premature popping.

This corn thread needs more smut.

pic related - it's corn smut. the taco benders go apeshiat for the stuff.

Global Warming turned me into a newt!

AnyName: Ooooh, a new one for the list!!

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Excellent list. Loved this one: http://nujournal.net/core.pdf

If unchecked Global Warming can cause the entire farking planet to explode in a giant nuclear fireball, then I better send $10 to Al Gore stat!

See folks, if you pay your carbon taxes, this kind of stuff wouldn't happen.

You guys do realize that there was no mention of global warming or climate change in the article, right?

roadkillontheweb: roadkillontheweb: I blame the street lights.

Anybody blame Obama yet?

Welcome to Obama's cornmaze

Farmer Wants A Brain?

Golden Ace: photo snapped by farmer Patrick Preston

I'm gonna guess blowtorch too

It's caused by microwaves, microwave radiation I tell ya. The sky's full of it. People leave the microwave open by mistake in China and corn gets popped in Kentucky. Coincidence?

mathpuppet: You guys do realize that there was no mention of global warming or climate change in the article, right?

I saw that and was all set to comment, but you beat me to it.

Flame on

That's nuttin. Some of my potatoes were half baked when I dug them out of the ground.

@Genju...thanks. I was juuuust about to post that.

This article was useless without pics of the corn that was popped.

Ball of Confusion: This corn thread needs more smut.

pic related - it's corn smut. the taco benders go apeshiat for the stuff.

Hot

/fap

morons have blamed all sorts of stuff on this fictional idea of man made global warming, why not pop corn???

I read that as "Farmer claims global warming is causing his corn to poop on the stalk".

Not sure what that says about me...

The kernels did not shoot out several feet like popcorn but in this photo you can see the kernels partially popped open.

Three reasons for this....
1) the corn plant is growing irregularly and is stressed
2) there has not been enough rain
3) the weather has been very hot
From Belski's Blog (new window)

Makes my (corn) Taco POP!!!
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Isn't this one of the signs of the end of the world?
Corn pops on the vine, snow in summer, earthquakes in Oklahoma?

schattenteufel: /required in every Global Warming thread.

I happen to be a sustainability advocate, but the logic in that cartoon is wrong. We should invest in our future because it is necessary, not because creating a bunch of expensive make-work is an end in and of itself. If we had unlimited oil and CO₂ emissions were not a concern, then it would be illogical for the world to spend trillions of dollars on alternative energy to create "green jobs." That makes as much sense as paying people to dig ditches and then fill them in. The reason we should invest in alternative energy is because oil is not unlimited and CO₂ is a concern.